eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2016-06-25 4 10 731 735 10.12691/education-4-10-4 EDUCATION20164104 article Cláudia Margarida Simões 1 Maria de Nazaré Castro Trigo Coimbra nazarecoimbra@email.com 1 Centre for Studies on Education and Training (CEEF/CeiEF), Lusófona University, Porto, Portugal This study focuses on environmental education in school, based on a work project with a laboratorial component. Thus, it is intended to disclose part of a wider research on the evaluation of an intervention project in the local environment, developed by students of a secondary school in the north of Portugal. The research is qualitative in nature, and it is focused on the discursive textual analysis of the report made by the coordinator of a school project and in the reports of students. The results show more awareness by young people, despite some difficulties in scientific writing and dissemination of results. Overall, there is a positive assessment of the project, the deepening of students´ scientific literacy and their commitment to a sustainable development of the local environment. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/4/10/4/education-4-10-4.pdf environmental education scientific literacy chemistry teaching school project